No, it wasn’t just your imagination. July Was the Hottest Month Ever Recorded, UN Says: July 2019 may have been the single hottest month in recorded history, preliminary data from the World Meteorological Organization shows. Global average temperatures from July 1 to July 29, 2019, met and possibly even surpassed the previous record for the … Read more
Musical accompaniment, the Tragically Hip: “New Orleans is sinking man and I don’t wanna swim.” The inflection point in the George W. Bush administration was not his disastrous Iraq War, but his administration’s apparent indifference and clusterfuck handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina “When The Levees Broke” (Parts I & II and Parts III & … Read more
The Trump campaign, and the Republican Party writ large, have fully embraced the Russian dezinformatsiya tactics that they learned from them in the 2016 campaign. Some would call it “gaslighting” the American public, and others would call it Orwellian “double-speak” from 1984. This was on full display yesterday when Donald Trump actually tried to claim that … Read more
21 plaintiffs, ages 9 to 20, are suing the federal government in a landmark suit charging that inaction by U.S. elected officials is robbing them of their future by failing to protect them despite their knowledge of the global harms caused by fossil fuels. Meet the Students Taking the Government to School, and to Court, … Read more
Martin Longman at the Political Animal blog takes a look at the recent European Union parliamentary elections and forecasts what they may portend for the U.S. election in 2020. He sees an invigorated youth vote turnout motivated by their desire to save the planet — and their future — from climate change. Europe’s Elections Have Warnings Signs … Read more